L'Ormarins turns Glorious Goodwood blue and white

Contestants in the best dressed competition which has a blue and white theme line up at Glorious Goodwood in Sussex Friday August 01, 2014 Photo: Christopher Pledger

Ladies' Day on Thursday at Glorious Goodwood was a characteristically classy affair - no boisterous cartwheel hats or acres of tangerine-hued flesh sully the Sussex downs - but it was Friday that afforded a glut of style statements, thanks to the L'Ormarins Best Dressed competition.

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Ladies had been invited to dress in blue and white, the colours of race sponsor L'Ormarins wine estate, and hundreds of punters had adapted the unspoken Goodwood code of Modern British Boho to accommodate the colour palette.

Judge Justine Picardie, the editor of
Harper's Bazaar,
stuck to the theme in a patterned shift dress by the London-based designer Erdem and a snappy panama hat from Lock & Co. Picking a winner was a tricky decision, Picardie said: "We were pretty strict; outfits really had to be top-to-toe blue and white. I was keen on people looking appropriate rather than absurd. I like a woman who looks comfortable in what she's wearing."

The eventual winner of the prize - a trip for two to South Africa - was Charlie Elmy-Britton (main picture, below), the owner of Sloanes Boutique in Petworth, who wore a lace dress from Alice by Temperley, Christian Louboutin shoes and a hat by
Leyla Leigh
millinery.

"Thank goodness my best friend is a milliner!" she said, as she posed for photographs with Gaynor Rupert, representing L'Ormarins on behalf of her husband, Johann, the chairman of Richemont which owns the South African wine estate. "Leigh [Johnson] makes all my Goodwood hats. I might have to take her to South Africa with me."